Recently banded Peregrine Falcon chicks on Nichols Ledge, Vermont. / © Steve Faccio
Faster than a speeding train. Able to leap the Green Mountains in a single bound. It’s a bird, not a plane. It’s a Peregrine Falcon! Biologists Kent McFarland and Sara Zahendra of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies recently took a trip to the Bolton Cliffs and joined Margaret Fowle, from Audubon Vermont in search of this lightning fast bird.
“Margaret’s got a good scope set up for us. Let’s get up on the road where we can get a good peak over the trees and up at the cliffside,” says McFarland.
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Links
- Learn more about Peregrine Falcons.
- See what the Vermont Breeding Bird Survey 2003-2007 discovered.
- Dynamic map of Peregrine Falcon observations on Vermont eBird
- Help science and conservation, add your Peregrine Falcon observations to Vermont eBird.
- Learn about the Vermont Peregrine Falcon Recovery Program.
Biologists Margaret Fowle, left, and Sarah Zahendra look for peregrine falcons in Bolton. The high wind can make it harder to listen for, and see, the large birds. / © K.P. McFarland
